Southern Oregon News Review, Ashland Oregon, Thursday, October 18, 1948
Through The Telescope, Or: Athunas In Wonderland
By Verne Athena«
.the only one left of the original are good for all showings this
invited to come out and get ac
ter and uguin in the closing m in
T'other evening, I was close three, and the problem now, is full."
Wolves Down
quainted
with
their
planetary
utes of the third quai ter.
enough to moon to shake hands to raise enough money for the I might add parenthetically,
neighbors.
Raiders 13-6
Final score, OCE 13; SOC «.
with it. Providing it had hands, m ount”
ot course, which it has not. The “This is a private venture, that Jay Mundlin is one of the And believe me it's w orth two
The Red Raiders of SOC
married students nt SOC, who bits of anybody’s money to see dropped a non-conference game
Mr. und Mrs. Cluyton Cullen
moon does have limbs, though then,’’ I said.
“We three built it with our somehow find time to make a the moon close enough to shake
or so 1 am informed by Jay
luid
as dinner guests Monday
to Monmouth Friday, October 23,
Mundlin.
1 am also informe own labor, and our own money’’ i living, get an education, and still hands with it.
evening
Mr. and Mrs. Wendell
on a fogbound field.
that “limb" is an astronomical Mundlin replied. “When its fin-,' find time to donate this kind of
Lawrence. The dinner celebrated
Southern Oregon scored near
term used to designate areas of lshed, it will be donated to the I work to the public benefit. He
the occasion of Mr. Cullen's b irth
Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Homes
the object being viewed, and has college. We are raising money by
the end of the first period on a day.
sets
up
the
’scope
on
the
lawn
went
on
a
fishing
trip
last
week
nothing to do with cheesecake selling tickets to see through the
16-yard pass from Chuck Jan-
Mr. and Mrs. Ftlll Ritchie re
the gym on the SOC cam end. Mrs. Homes caught a good dreau to Je rry Edwards.
Darn It!
The turned this week from a trip to
’scope. Tickets are 25 cents, and I behind
pus, and the public is definitely sized salmon.
Most of Ashland seems to be
Wolves scored in the second q u a r California.
blithely ignorant of the fact that
we have a real telescope in town.
And 1 don’t mean just a little
old dime-store gimcrack ’scope,
but a real honest-to-pete, ten-
inch reflecting telescope. And it
is just as effective in its way, as
the much-publicized Mount Pal-
omar 200 incher.
Last April, Jay Mundlin, Phil
ip Ankeny, and William Draper
started to build a telescope. None
of them had ever had any exper
ience along such lines, but start
it they did. Now in case you
don't know it, you don’t just go
out and pick up a reflecting mir
ror for a telescope. No indeedy.
You buy a slab of pyrex glass
and various abrasives, and you
grind a slight hollow in that slab
of glass. Which sounds simple
until you are told that you must
grind a curve representing a ten-
inch segment of a circle 33 feet
four inches in diameter. Some of
you mathemeticians can figure
how few thousands of an inch
the center is below the rim, be
On the man you elect rests the welfare of this
cause it's way over my head. But
state; this means your welfare, your family’s welfare
I do know, to make the thing re
flect a true image, that the curve
and the welfare of your business! Never before have
must be accurate to a tolerance
the ISSUES in an election been so vital. In the cloud
of about 1/1,000,000 of an inch
of campaign dust you hear words and words of
Take a look at the edge of the
promises
and opinions by candidates and committees.
paper you are reading. Not very
It
is
to
avoid
confusion on the real issues and to help
thick, is It? Well, suppose you
you
to
judge
them
on the basis of ACTU A L FACTS
sliced it into 1000 thicknesses.
You can’t, so don’t try it, but
from Oregon state records that this committee sup
suppose you did. You’d have a
-dies the “voting test” below; try it on yourself.
smidgen of paper roughly 1/1,-
The Honorable Lew W allace has served in th
000,000 of an inch thick' Well,
-regon State Senate as has his principal opponen'
that’s what these three men did.
loth candidates have ACTUAL RECORDS OI
They mounted a slab of plate
glass on a pedestal, about waist
’ERFORM ANCE. The major issues that will affee
high, charged it with carborun
he everyday life and welfare of all of us are show
dum, and ground out the mirror
>elow. The action of each candidate is described. /
by hand. It took 60 man-hours of
.pace is provided for your convenience in checkin
scrubbing those two pieces of
L E W W A L L A C E . ”/ believe that a
See
for yourself on a basis of the actual record he
•nan who aspires to be governor of
¡"here is nothing about being elect,
glass together before the job was
Oregon should be guided in his atti-
overnor that changes the essenti
you stand on the men and their action records.
done. Then they silvered it by
ude by the w ill of the people, as
haracter of a man." (Excerpt froi
a complicated chemical process
McKay committee literature.**)
epeatedly demonstrated at the polls."
that made me tired just to hear
about It.
Then followed a rather intri
cate bit of cabinet work.
The
tube which houses the mirror is
a hexagonal spiderweb of short
bits of wood, linked into geome
trical patterns, about ten inches
across and 100 inches long. The
whole thing is mounted on a
counterweighted swivel base that
allows the tube to be aimed at
ON THE SALES TAX;
any point from the horizon to the
ON THE SALES TAX:
zenith, or straight up.
Fought the general sales tax in the senate—
Voted
FO R a general State 3% Sales T a x -
Oddly enough, the eyepiece is
voted against it in 1947 legislature. W ill
contributed
money for sales tax in special
not located at the mirror, but at
veto any general sales tax.
election—spoke
on radio in an effort to pass
the other end of the tube, 100
it
in
last
M
ay’s
election.
inches away. And the eyepiece
Check if you agree
does not sight into the mirror
Check if you agree.
but into another little reflector,
about one inch in diameter. And
it works!
ON THE INCOME TAX;
ON THE INCOME TAX:
Mr. Mundlin aimed the thing at
Long legislative record fighting for lower
Voted
FO R increased income taxes—lower
the moon, t’other evening and
income taxes. Voted against increasing in
exemptions
so that old age pensioners now
actually, the image was so big
come taxes. W ill continue to fight for lower
pay
tax.
Now
reverses his stand in election
you couldn’t see it all at once
income taxes.
literature promises — two weeks after Lew
I had to move the scope in a cir
Wallace’s lower tax platform was made
cle to see all of the thing. The
Check if you agree.
public.
craters and spiderweb traceries
of the rugged surface were as
Check if you agree.
plain as the nose on my face, and
ON RESTRICTIVE LABOR LAWS:
people with 20/20 vision have
spotted by proboccis a full block
Fought AGAINST and voted against both
ON RESTRICTIVE LABOR LAWS:
away, as a matter of record.
restrictive labor laws in the legislature.
We also got a look at Jupiter,
Voted FO R both restrictive labor laws in
though it was pretty low on the
Check if you agree.
the Senate.
horizon, and made ripply by the
Check if you agree.
heat waves coming off the moun
tains. Even so, I saw two of its
moons and Jay spotted three.
ON ADDITIONAL CASOLINE TAX:
The ’scope first went Into oper
(
ation June 27th, and to date, re
Is opposed to the proposed 2 cent per gal
ON
ADDITIONAL
CASOLINE
TAX:
corded observations have been
lon increase in gasoline tax.
Advocates a 2 cent per gallon increase in
made of Mars, Saturn, Jupiter,
gasoline tax.
Venus and the Moon.
Check if you agree.
I asked Jay why they had put
^ Check if you agree.
the terrific amount of labor into
the ’scope.
“Well,” he said simply, “South
NOW - TOTAL YOUR OPINIONS AND VOTE
NOW - TOTAL YOUR OPINIONS AND VOTE
ern Oregon College needed a tele
FOR THE MAN YOU BELIEVE IS RIGHT,
scope. We couldn’t buy one, so
FOR THE MAN YOU BELIEVE IS RIGHT,
we built one. We three chipped
REGARDLESS OF YOUR PARTY!
REGARDLESS OF YOUR PARTY!
in and raised $55.00. No one kept
track of the labor. It isn’t fin
ished, because we need a per
manent mounting and housing
for the tube, but it’s useable. I’m
NEXT TUESDAY
YO U WILL ELECT
A GOVERNOR
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